At a Global Crossroads: Turn Against War

On Sunday, I am traveling to Madison,Wisconsin, to join a group from Voices for Creative Nonviolence. We will start walking on May 1st in Madison and we will arrive in Chicago on May 18th. I am looking forward to this adventure, as we will walk through some of the same places that we visited on the Witness Against War walk in the summer of 2008. Our walk is titled  At a Global Crossroads: Turn Against War. The walk is timed so that we arrive in Chicago to greet the visitors to the NATO summit.
During this walk, it is my goal to explore the conflict between Alice the Artist and Alice the Activist and to try to figure out ways to reconcile the two. I will be using a visual journal and am bringing paints and pencils and various other things so that I can do mixed media during my trip.
I'll have plenty of pictures to share when I return!

springtime!!!!!!

I've been taking walks and am getting ready for a long walk, from Madison, Wisconsin, to Chicago, Illinois, next month with Voices for Creative Nonviolence. The walk will be called "Chicago at the Crossroads: Turn Against War." It starts on May 1st and ends on May 18th. It will be nice to explore the midwest during springtime, when everything is blooming and vividly colored. The gifts of nature are reason enough to turn against war. I intend to bring a camera and a visual journal, along with art supplies. When I come home, I'll have much to share, both here and in my art blog.
Here are some of the colors of spring:

A delicate flowering tree

A vivid flowering tree

jonquil

Daffodil

Hyacinth

Crocuses